Synduality: Echo Of Ada

Nonsensical name, enjoyable game

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FORMAT PS5 / ETA 2024/PUB BANDAI NAMCO DEV GAME STUDIO INC / PLAYERS MULTI

Usually we here at PLAY love rain. When the sky is weeping outside, we have the perfect excuse to stay inside and play Baldur's Gate 3 all day. But Synduality's toxic showers have us swearing off stupid skywater for good. What's the point of a game that puts you in a massive heavily-armed mech if you're just going to be destroyed by a light drizzle?

The mech's name should've been a red flag. We're piloting a Cradle Coffin, a moniker for a machine that feels like it's really tempting fate. The apocalypse happened, and the planet's surface is now more hostile to humans than a Covid strain made of wasps. There's the aforementioned killer rain, plus deadly creatures called 'Enders' prowling the abandoned cities, deserts, and lakes. Oh, and the game's a PvPvE extraction shooter, so if you meet another mech, you'd better pray they're reaching for the wave emote and not a massive shotgun.